North and South: Rights and Wrongs

[@jonpowell4246]

I love how no matter how hard things got for them or how many times their names and titles were slandered Orry and George's friendship and brotherhood stayed strong no matter how many times the strength of their bond was put to the test.

[@ocrap10]

According to my family history i had an ancestor who lived in Tennessee, when this happened he took his family west. In his journal he wrote I WILL NOT FIGHT MY NORTHERN BRETHREN

[@barbaraerlinger217]

Good man.

[@MHiggins]

The divisions that were born out of this conflict never healed in this society.

[@Anynom]

"Shall we go watch the South celebrate its own funeral?" I like how Orry is shown to be a patriotic Southerner who still sees how this whole thing is doomed to fail and leave the South worse off than before.

[@ruadhrose]

Anynom He wasn’t alone. There were plenty of Southerners rich and poor who felt secession ultimately would lead the nation to a terrible war and essentially to its own self destruction. Ironically both Robert E Lee and Jackson Davis were both opposed to secession. Davis voted against secession as a Representative in Mississippi. Lee also spoke against it though his stand would always be with Virginia.

[@MizzKittyBichon]

Rhett Butler from Gone With the Wind expressed some similar views if I remember correctly.

[@DavidOatney]

Recall that Alexander Stephens, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, none of these major Confederate figures supported succession before it occurred. Most of them thought that the project would likely fail. But they were loyal to their section and their State.

[@ReformedSooner24]

Deacon David Oatney And some of them saw their opportunity to push their views on slavery and race. That’s ultimately I believe why the south seceded. Because the aristocracy and the rich wanted to keep their slaves and so they said “state’s rights” and convinced thousands of southern men to go and die.

[@kchishol1970]

@@DavidOatney As James L. Petigru of South Carolina said, "South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum."

[@postmastersgt1670]

Little did these southerners knew they would regret this day.

[@SapphireCrusader1988]

Yes. If they had developed their own industry to a level on par with the North, as well as worked out issues between the states, then the Confederacy might have had more of a chance.

[@cbiswhite]

She was also on "Dynasty" for at least one season. I think Terry Garber is a really good actress.

[@jjaa6157]

Loved George's brotherly concern for his eventual sister-in-law. Constance would not forgive him if he didn't, with child or not. Brett was like a sister to her.

[@Schone23666]

"We have declared our freedom to the world!" LOL, well, that celebration certainly didn't last long...

[@CommandersFan-sz7jp]

Proud Southerner.

[@haeleth7218]

If I'd been a Yankee there at that moment I would have put on my best Southern accent to stay alive!

[@snocamo154]

That's funny.😊

[@Sisyphus27]

What are the names of the songs being played when Orry, George, and Brett go outside and when James arrives, respectively?

[@jgreenhoff]

Sisyphus27 yes, I always wanted to know the name of the song when James arrives... Did u find out?

[@albinahlsen8928]

Well one of the songs playing in this clip is "Dixie Land" (I Wish I Was in Dixie)

[@samuelattas3864]

When James arrives: “Old Dog tray” 1851. But I would love to know the first song also…

[@MrShaun42088]

I always loved to hate Ashton...

[@surajratti1329]

Wonderful series by the writer John Jakes he added a real life figures such as Harriet Beecher Stowe John Brown Lincoln

[@holydiver73]

I guess it’s time to do it again.

[@liberalman8319]

Fine with me if want to go 0-2. Learn how to finish a fight before you start one.

[@holydiver73]

@@liberalman8319 patriots can take you lefties any day. You don’t even know which bathroom to use these days. You’re a joke.

[@TheJohnmarston72]

@@liberalman8319 Afghanistan

[@tomace4898]

These people all ended up surrendering and crawling back to the Union.

[@michellekinder3051]

It took 4plus years, cost lives, maimed, depleted treasury, rioting, draft and taxes started. It took 100 plus years for a lot of hate to finally ebb away.

[@sandyjuntunen4088]

Crawling? Not hardly. Wishes don't write history.

[@soupful]

SEE: Few Survivors From North and South Book I & II (1985 , 1986 TV) in Book III: Heaven and Hell (1993, TV) see last of good guys reign supreme over the last of bad guys. Especially Ashton

[@thedukeofswellington1827]

If i was Orry i wouldve organized an unionist regiment to send to DC. SC was the only state that didnt

[@michellekinder3051]

A lot of southern states sent men to fight for the Union. Also Sam Houston was asked by Lincoln to become over Union army after Lee turned it down, he could not fight against family neighbors and friends against the Union he loved and vice versa.

[@Ares99999]

But they didn't, and so they didn't. I feel no sympathy for the South at all.

[@katrinahaynes6279]

Southern.right Yankee rights

[@Ares99999]

Wow. You really must have felt the need to say that. Okay, whatever makes you happy.

[@Temujin1991]

I honestly wish we had won but there was no chance. The south had the better generals but the north had more men and more equipment.

[@Avalanche041]

and some pretty good generals as well. A lot of mediocre ones at the start yes but combat quickly weeded out the incompetent ones.

[@Temujin1991]

@@Avalanche041 To be honest the south had the better ones. No offense meant but the only good ones that the north had were Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Custer. The south had dozens

[@ReformedSooner24]

I think it’s alright we lost in the end. It did lead to the swifter end to slavery than what may have come and kept us united as one power. Can you imagine the horror of WW1 between North and South? Or even WW2? I think that it’s okay we lost. I’m not saying it’s the best way for things to have turned out because we can only speculate about other times, but it’s turned out ok.

[@davepalmer6511]

I think as the Industrial Revolution took role in the mid 19th, and new industries and inventions took play to farm equipment, as well the cotton gin business in the, the use of Slavery would died out by 1861. I a collector and have great interest in the inventions of the early to mid-19th century. And there is a lot that invented. The use of robber for example was in play by the late 1840s. Sewing machine also saw service. There were in my opinion alot of fire eaters that sparked conflict in the South, as well in the North that sparked war. I wonder what the history of this country would have been were look like if people of the mid-nineteenth century had compromised with each other and the country went toward industrializing the South I wonder what it would have look like. Fortunately history in reality took its play in the Civil War took its role the slaves were freed and 649000 people lost their lives.

[@liberalman8319]

4 million slaves disagree with you.

[@katrinahaynes6279]

Damn the Confederacy

[@robertisham5279]

God bless the confederacy

[@ReformedSooner24]

Allow me to dabble in the grey. Damn the confederate aristocracy and political leaders. God bless the confederate soldiers. God bless all soldiers of the American Civil War for that matter.

[@liberalman8319]

Tell hell with confederacy and traitors.

[@johnjacobs7928]

@@robertisham5279 So glad the American Confederacy NO LONGER EXISTS!!!!!!!!!! 😊

[@joelfetner3170]

We all know everything about the terrible South because yankees in the media & academia are always, always, always there to tell us about what it was really like.

[@gaylescott4043]

💯💯💯

[@katrinahaynes6279]

Thank God I'm a Yankee girl

[@LBF522]

The right side.

[@katrinahaynes6279]

Souther. Isn't it ha don't make me laugh

[@blotoutthesun4969]

Angloids

[@davidpollack3556]

One of the North's and America's biggest wrong was to end slavery .

[@johnjacobs7928]

You wouldn't say this publicly! You are too COWARDLY to make a press conference and publicly make this remark!!!